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David@NY wrote:

I believe speakers fall into 2 categories -- to serve personal preference, or to serve content of the source.  If it's designed to serve the content of the source then it shouldn't have any adjustments.  On the other hand, if it's purpose is to serve personal preference then it should be heavily adjustable to suit one's taste.

There are no personal preferences that might be pleased by any complimentary adjustable properties. What I mean: if listeners have civilized and serious reference points then they ALL operate within one unified common denominator of reproductive quality. Pretend that you have an ultimate sound processor that might change any property of sound reproduction without hearting anything else and pretend that 10000 of listeners were asked to adjust with this “ultimate sound processor” sound in order to make the playback to sound in there way they feel it should be. Some very minor group of people after making their adjustments will end up with identical sound, the most approximated to live sound. Ironically, this would be the only group of the people whose opinions and expertise would mean anything. However, the rest of the subjects (I would estimate 98%) will end up with own  “personal different preference” sounds, that would juts reflect their own corrupted references point and their listening immaturity. (This is the major reason why 98% of all playbacks out there suck)

There is another important fact or, that you David, do not took under consideration. The benefits of  “a better playback” might be assessed only in context of real benefits. Under the “real benefits” I mean the benefits of musicality not the benefits of sound reproductive methods. The personal preference might be applicable only in context of those “reproductive differences” and therefore they have nothing to do with real goals of reproduction.

Finally, the “serving the content of the source” is kind of ambiguous concept, as what would be a source? Obviously the recording itself is not “the souse. In fact there is not source at all in a “domain of subjects” and therefore, the “serving” should not be applied to the “content of the source” but rather to the “content of intentions”...

So, a properly used tweeter and a properly implemented tweeter adjuster are do not mean to “set personal preferences” but rather they are the mechanisms to eliminate the pollution of Sound with the contaminates of reproductive methods

Rgs,
Romy the caT

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